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tea-bowl

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Porcelain tea-bowl with high, straight sides. There are two cockerels in a landscape in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red on one side, and a rock and a coxcomb plant on the other. There is a mark on the base.

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Four-character archaistic Yongle mark in a double circle in underglaze blue on the base

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Published PDF date : Ming early 17th centuryRoom 95 label text:

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Tea bowl with two confronted cockerels

This tea bowl is painted in underglaze cobalt blue and underglaze copper red with two cockerels. The base has an apocryphal four-character underglaze blue Yongle reign mark. As demand for the court declined, Jingdezhen potters eagerly accepted orders from middle-class customers in China, as well as exporting wares to the Middle East, Europe and Japan. The shape of this tea bowl was very popular in Japan.

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Porcelain tea-bowl with high, straight sides, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red. Two confronted cockerels in a landscape on one side, rock and coxcomb plant on the other. Mark on base.